Author: Stephan Reilly
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You Can Sit With Us spreads kindness
You Can Sit With Us held events across campus this month to raise awareness about bullying on campus and in the workplace in honour of anti-bullying week. The Kindness Project was one of three events held. Students…
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Favourite games of 2018
Everyone knows someone who games. Whether it’s you, a friend or a roommate, gaming permeates all our lives in one way or another. According to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, a little…
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Game design students create escape room
A group of Laurier students designed in the first-ever international escape room competition presented by Red Bull Mind Gamers. The championships will be held on March 25 in Budapest, Hungary. The escape…
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Please play again
February started as it usually does, with a gust of cold Canadian wind and Tim Hortons’ incredibly popular Roll Up the Rim promotion. Laurier students started buying hot drinks and sharing their…
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How to get your very own anime boyfriend
Mystic Messenger is a South Korean visual novel aimed at female players. It puts players in the role of a single woman who you name, making her your avatar. The interface is…
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Please stop discrediting the artists
There’s a misconception in our culture around art and artists that needs to be addressed. It’s become quite popular to make fun of liberal arts degrees and people who go to school…
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Playground banter with Brian Jenkins
The GAME talk series, a new series of presentations from game industry veterans, kicked off last week, with the first presentation held at Laurier Brantford. Laurier Brantford hosted Brian Jenkins, general manager…
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Villains or victims? Mental health in video games
According to the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), mental illness is something that affects one of every five Canadians. It’s so common that every Canadian knows, either directly or indirectly, someone struggling…
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What to watch on Netflix this Halloween
Halloween is just around the corner and that means people are in the mood for spooky and scary. Whether it’s exorcisms, 80s horror or a hypothetical (or not) future America where crime…
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It’s always “just one more level”
Everyone either knows someone or has themselves played a video game when they should have been doing homework. It’s a part of student life. There’s something about the nature of a videogame…
